EDITORIAL: Document dump could quench Bengahzi fires

Hillary Clinton should take these two words to heart: “document dump.” This is a tested Washington tactic that could save her a lot of political aggravation.

Forward-looking GOP strategists badly want to diminish the stature of the former secretary of State. Congressional Republicans have settled on a strategy of death by a thousand cuts, doling out seemingly damning details of her role in the death of the U.S. ambassador and three others at a U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya.

It was clearly a gross failure of security, compounded by the White House misrepresentation of it as a mob action instead of a deliberate terrorist attack.

Clinton has been through this before and each time she dug in and insisted those records were nobody’s business but hers. In one case, billing records, the more she stonewalled, the more the press was convinced she had something to hide.

The records mysteriously appeared in “an unused White House storeroom” and a Clinton aide dumped them in a big pile and hence the phrase “document dump.”

The reporters pawed through the files and quickly got bored. Madame Secretary, in dealing with chairman Issa, remember those words, “Document dump.”